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Essays investigating the question of time, and how it was
perceived, both in philosophical/religious terms, and in reality.
How was time experienced in the Middle Ages? What attitudes
informed people's awareness of its passing - especially when
tensions between eternity and human time shaped perceptions in
profound and often unexpected ways? Is it a human universal or
culturally specific - or both? The essays here offer a range of
perspectives on and approaches to personal, artistic, literary,
ecclesiastical and visionary responses to time during this period.
They cover a wide and diverse variety of material, from historical
prose to lyrical verse, and from liturgical and visionary writing
to textiles and images, both real and imagined, across the literary
and devotional cultures of England, Italy, Germany and Russia. From
anxieties about misspent time to moments of pure joy in the here
and now, from concerns about worldly affairs to experiences of
being freed from the trappings of time, the volume demonstrates how
medieval cultures and societies engaged with and reflected on their
own temporalities.
The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written
chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's
oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of
scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of
Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning
several disciplines: philology, material culture, history,
religion, art history, visual studies, theory from the classical to
the contemporary, queer, post- and de-colonial, and feminist
studies. The volume combines a rigorous reassessment of Dante's
formation, themes, and sources, with a theoretically up-to-date
focus on textuality, thereby offering a new critical Dante. The
volume is divided into seven sections: 'Texts and Textuality';
'Dialogues'; 'Transforming Knowledge'; Space(s) and Places'; 'A
Passionate Selfhood'; 'A Non-linear Dante'; and 'Nachleben'. It
seeks to challenge the Commedia-centric approach (the conviction
that notwithstanding its many contradictions, Dante's works move
towards the great reservoir of poetry and ideas that is the
Commedia), in order to bring to light a non-teleological way in
which these works relate amongst themselves. Plurality and the
openness of interpretation appear as Dante's very mark, coexisting
with the attempt to create an all-encompassing mastership. The
Handbook suggests what is exciting about Dante now and indicate
where Dante scholarship is going, or can go, in a global context.
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